On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 16:48, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Brian Nelson wrote: > [snip] > > > Seriously Brian, with your resonning and the fact that Windows is still the > > > OS of more than 95% of today computers, why are you wasting your time with > > > GNU/Linux? > > > > Uhh, I'm not saying we should drop support for all non-i386 > > architectures in Debian. I'm only asking why it's so important for > > experimental to be autobuilt if, in all likelihood, no one will *ever* > > use the non-i386 packages. > > IMHO that's a mis-assumption. > > > And, if there happens to be demand for a > > particular non-i386 package, why not build it for the needed arch and > > upload it? That would be far less effort than having to maintain > > buildd's for experimental. > > Not everyone can do that. On a SGI Indy with R5000-150PC a build of > XFree86 needs about 2 Days, but X is useful on even the slowest Indy. Can I upload a cross compiled package (for experimental, I know I should not do that for the other archives)? I have a cross compiler here set up for powerpc, on an i386. Greetings, Oliver
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